The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-04-08
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.


sENATE-on the a9lh the Assembly bill was
concurred in permitting the party to suit at
law to obtain change Of place Of trial on ac-
count of the prejudice Of the judge. The bill
was killed prohibiting leading railroads in the
State from charging more than 2ls cents per
mile for passenger fare.
AssEMBLY-The Senate bill was concurred in
making fifteen years the maximum term of
Imprisonment for any person who shall entice
or aid in enticing from home any unmarried
woman OF ehaste character for immoral pur-
poses; also for the punishment of any person
who shall carnally know any female idiot or
imbecile woman or girl, by Imprisonment from
two to five years, and making the penalty from
one to three years Imprisonment for the leas-
ing OF houses in which females under twenty
one years of age are kept for immoral purposes.
Bills were passed fixing q penalty of 500
fine or six months Imprisonment for any per-
son to attempt by force or otherwise to pre-
vent others from working; Furnishing by max
imum fine of $1,000 or two years Imprisonment
any person who shall maliciously iniure rail-
road cars or locomotives: requiring shippers Of
live stock to separate calves. hogs, sheer, ETC.,
from horses and cattle; providing for s4te in-
prisonment of tramps in the county iaf4 at hard
labor or in solitary confinement, and aims to
prevent the evasion heretofore practiced by
officers and justices in relation to. the tramp
laws.
SENATE-A resolution was adopted on the
Both for Constitutional cor IGNITION to revise
and amend me constitution of the State. Bills
were pass..d appropriating three dollars per
week for the maintenance Of each inmate in the
Wisconsin Veterans Home; declaring it
penal offense for any building commission or
regents to exceed the provisions of any appro-
priation in the construction of any public
building, and exempting public library
associations from taxation on their
property. memorial to Congress was
adopted asking for the establishment
Of Postal Savings Bank. Bills were killed:
Providing for q uniform size for election tick
cts, and for printing the same at public OK.
pense, and requiring railway companies to give
passes to members of the Legislature, State Of
fcers and judges.
AssEMBLY-Bills were passed prohibiting the
employment of more persons in factory or
workshop than is consistent with health; pro-
hibiting any common carrier from discriminat-
ing Tor any service rendered in this State, and
prohibiting rebates, drawbacks, etc.; providing
that any two or more employees, who shall COM
bine for The purpose of preventing any persons
from obtaining employment, shall be guilty of
misdemeanor punishable by maximum I'M
prisonment of twelve months, or fine of not
less than $780, or both; prohibiting State aid to
any agricultural society which has failed to pay
its premium in full at its last fair; and permit
ting county judges, when sworn evidence war
rants the proceeding, to remove children from
the care of abusive or negligent parents or
guardians.
SFEATE-The joint Committee on Apportion-
ment agreed on the 31st upon the appor-
tionment Of Senatorial districts. BY the plan
the Senate will consist of about thirteen Dem
ocrats and twenty Republicans. The repre-
sentation is one Senator to 1890 people. The
appointment of DR.. w. w. Reid a. Jefferson,
as member of the State Board of Charities ana
Reform for term of five years. beginning
April /, was confirmed Assembly bills were
killed creating the county of Mills out of the
east half of the county Of Ashland, and requir-
ing the State Pension Agent to keep his office
at Madison and devote his time wholly to the
duties Of his Office
ASSEMBLY-A joint resolution sympathizing
with Ireland in her oppression and denouneing
the Tory Government of Great Britain, and o
memorial to Congress asking that all ex-Unio1A
soldiers who were confined in Southern prisons
be pensioned, were adopted. Bills were passed
prohibiting nonresident aliens from holding
more than 800 acres of land in the State, ex
cept by inheritance; making il unlawful fol
any election clerk or inspector to change
or alter any BALLOT for any per-
son; prohibiting the scntenc ng to
State prison of boys under sixteen years of
age, and permitting them to Ire sentenced to
the State Industrial School tilS eighteen years
of age making the manufacture, sale or pur-
chase of any explosive of gEeater force than
gun-powder, unless for lawful purposes, pun
ishable by maximum fine and imprisonment
of $1,000 and two years respectively and re-
curing all persons handling the same to secure
a license
SENATE-On the 1st the bill was passed re-
pealing the law of 1885 by which person maxi
ing Improvements any land had o lien on the
entire property. Assembly bills were concur
red in publishing employers for blacklisting any
employees; prohibiting insurance and othercor
porations organized under chapter Sc, Laws Of
1878, from doing buainess until $4,000 of stock
has been subscribed for and $4,000 paid in; sub
hitting a constitutional amendGent to the peo-
pie placing school matters more completely UNI
der the power of the Legislature. Adjourned
to tie 4th
AssEMBLY-Bills were concurred in regulat-
lag the sale of Intoxicating liquors of pharma-
cists: requiring the Governor to appoint four
game gardens, and allowing counties of more
than rs 900 population to build an addition to
the county insane asylum if deemed necessary
by the State Board of Charities. Adjourned to
the 18th.
SENATE-On the 4th Senator James intro
duced joint resolution granting permission to
introduce bill to abolish the pass system now
practiced by railroads in the State.
AssEMSLY-A bill was passed which prohib-
Its, under penalty Of from $25 to $780, the print
ing and circulating at the polls of split tickets,
unless the words ''split ticket appears at the
head. Other bills passed were: To allow the
service of process on local agents of railway
companies to be binding on such companies; to
prohibit the killing of birds for millinery pur.
poses; to require all saloons in the State, ex-
cept in incorporated villages and Cities to close
at eleven p. N.